Bill Kath's life story of early childhood and humble upbringings in 1921. Being raised on a dairy farm around Kingaroy and Dalby in South East Queensland, Australia, with Dad(Fred), Mum(Helen) and five brothers(Doug, Roly, Lloyd, Lyle Noel) and sister(Gweneth).

Bill's story telling and wit of the introduction of electricity and machinery to the farm and travelling to country dances in horse drawn vehicles.

Only going to year 7 education Bill eventually served in the Australian Army in WW2 as a mechanic seeing the attacks on Townsville, FNQ and Milne Bay, PNG.

Eventually Bill settled with his second wife in Biloela, Central Queensland as the local mechanic, service station owner and local fire chief.

More at BillKath.WordPress.com




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Artist/Composer: Ian Kath
Date: 2010-02-16
Source: Self Produced
Keywords: Australia; Oral; 20th Century; History; War; WW2; Farming; Farm; Dairy; Electricity; Automobiles; Life Story.

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia

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